LIVING all her life on a farm has given Emma Blamire the insight into dealing with day-to-day issues facing the farming community in her job as a recently-qualified solicitor. Growing up on her family’s farm, she was always outdoors, helping her parents with jobs and exploring the nearby fields and countryside. Going away to university to study law only underlined how important living and working in Cumbria was to her. “As much as I loved living in the city, it wasn’t green enough for me,” she says. “I’ve lived on a farm all my life and spent much of my time outdoors. It was important to me that I came back home to Cumbria.”